As a former lawyer, a legal technology CEO, and a paying client of five major law firms, I see how legal services are built, sold, and experienced.Recently, my wife and I sent three firms an RFP for personal legal work. One firm responded with a partner’s name, an associate’s name, an hourly rate, and a LinkedIn profile. That was the…
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Conversational AI is shifting the role of e-discovery professionals from data retrievers to strategic advisers who focus on investigation strategy, AI governance, and data intelligence. While AI accelerates access to information, professionals remain essential for framing the right questions, validating outputs and ensuring defensibility.
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Another in my continuing series of letting AI write its own posts for me explaining how and why it failed at what I asked it (quite reasonably, if I may say so) to do. I might start calling this AIsplaining.When an AI assistant fails to do the work, its next skill may be persuading you to accept the failure.…
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Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Quantum computing has long suffered from an exhausting public relations cycle: on one side lies the distant theoretical promise of world-altering supremacy; on the other, the sobering reality of noisy, fragile hardware confined to academic cleanrooms. During the session titled Quantum Convergence, Jerry Chow, IBM Fellow and Chief Technology Officer for…
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The UK Law Commission today (8 October) launched a consultation on major reform to bring product liability law up to date, including expanding the definition of “product” to include software […]
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The Federal Trade Commission has issued warning letters to 24 of the nation’s largest healthcare services companies, putting major hospital and health-system operators on notice that patient pricing practices remain a live consumer-protection priority. Although the agency has not filed an enforcement action, the letters are legally significant: they serve as a public signal that the FTC is scrutinizing whether…
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A federal judge’s decision dismissing a suit alleging AI hiring tools resulted in discrimination against Black applicants could be instructive, as interest in algorithms in the hiring process grows. Here, the court found that factors like a large number of rejected applications and variables such as zip code as a proxy for race were not sufficient to show race discrimination…
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Federal prosecutors in Minnesota have filed a terrorism-related criminal complaint against Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, 18, alleging he sought to carry out a mass-shooting attack at the Mall of America in support of ISIS. According to the Justice Department’s announcement, Mohamud is charged with knowingly receiving a firearm and ammunition to commit a federal crime of terrorism, a charge that immediately…
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A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked border-wall and related infrastructure construction in the Big Bend region, handing environmental and local challengers an early procedural win in a closely watched dispute over the government’s use of statutory waiver authority.

The case centers on whether the Department of Homeland Security lawfully bypassed environmental, cultural, and archaeological protections in order to…
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Tom Saunders shares some behind-the scenes data on what senior in-house leaders are thinking about when it comes to the return on investment from AI and whether radical restructuring is […]
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